Nicolaus, de Plove (a.k.a. Nicolaus de Blony).

TRactatus [sic] sacerdotalis d[e] sacrame[n]tis: de[que] diuinis officiis et eoru[m] administrato[n]ibus.

      [Strassburg: Johann Knobloch, 1502-8?]. Small 4to (19 cm; 7.5"). A8C-D4D8F-K4L-M8N-R4S8T6 (-T5); [97 (of 98)] ff. (without the "tabula"). Also known by the title De sacramentis, Nicolaus de Plove's work on the sacraments of the Roman Catholic church seems to have been printed for the first time ca. 1475, with approximately 10 additional incunable editions. This edition does not match the collation of any edition listed in VD16, COPAC, or WorldCat, but comparison of its type with that of two early 16th-century editions from Knobloch's press is sufficient to assign this printing to his Strassburg establishment and to give it a date in the first decade of the 16th century. The text is complete but it is clear that the next to the last leaf is missing: It would contain the "Tabula" and possibly the colophon. The final blank is present. Nicolaus's text is printed in double-column format in gothic, black-letter type, with guide letters but the initials unaccomplished. Evidence of readership: Marginalia throughout; a small area at the beginning of four lines on A6v with early reader's inking over of the lightly printed letters (in a near perfect approximation of the gothic type). Provenance: Ownership signature of "G. Lunndro, Woodmansey, 1852"; bookplate of Madison University; later bookplate of Colgate University (i.e., Madison changed names in 1890); later transferred to Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Deaccessioned. Not in VD16; not in Adams. 19th-century plain boards. Ex-library with bookplates of two different institutions; pressure-stamp on title- and other leaves; five-digit acquisition number stamped in lower margin of first leaf of the prologue; residue of a charge pocket on rear pastedown and ink transfer to rear free endpaper.